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    <h1><a href="index.html">caRuby:</a></h1>
    <h2><a href="http://cabig.nci.nih.gov">caBIG&reg;</a> Simplified</h2>
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    <h3>ca<font size="+0">Small</font> Web Service</h3>
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      ca<font size="-1">Small</font> is a micro-framework for accessing and building lightweight caBIG application web services and
      applications. This initiative is in the planning stage. The initial offering will be a
      <a href="http://rest.elkstein.org/">RESTful</a> web service for reading and writing caTissue data.
      The web service resides on the caTissue application server.
      The client calls caRuby by sending a standard <a href="http://www.json.org/xml.html">JSON</a>
      request without installing caTissue or caRuby on the client workstation.
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      ca<font size="-1">Small</font> leverages the advent of ultra-slim Ruby frameworks such as
      <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a>,
      <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/httparty-web-api-rest-service-consumption-from-ruby-class-981.html">HttParty</a>
      and <a href="http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/"/>Thin</a>.   
      Stay tuned for further developments.
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